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Hermann Broch (German:; 1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945).
Apr 26, 2003 · The Death of Virgil, Hermann Broch. I once said that The Death of Virgil exists on its own plane of reality, and that is what makes the book worth reading. As a novel of ideas it is behind most of Thomas Mann’s work, and doesn’t even approach Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities. As a historical excursion into the classics, it’s ...
Dec 4, 2022 · Artwork from the 1983 Oxford University Press English edition. Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is an excerpt from Hermann Broch ‘s masterpiece, ‘The Death of Virgil’, Pantheon Books, N.Y., June 1945. The publisher issued the book simultaneously in its original German as well as its English translation by Jean Starr ...
Jan 30, 2011 · The idea of progress can be read into Broch’s style. The Death of Virgil is more difficult, as it starts in the same mode that ends The Sleepwalkers. The reader can work out what’s going on easily enough, but the effect is to make the book daunting to the reader, who hasn’t been eased into it. The sentences go on and on; there are few ...
The Death of Virgil (German: Der Tod des Vergil) is a 1945 novel by the Austrian author Hermann Broch.The narrative reenacts the last hours of life of the Roman poet Virgil, in the port of Brundisium (), whence he had accompanied the emperor Augustus, his decision – frustrated by the emperor – to burn his Aeneid, and his final reconciliation with his destiny.
- Hermann Broch
- 1945
As it was, Hermann Broch was to leave behind on his death in 1951 not only a substantial literary oeuvre, including (alongside Die Schlafwandler) the extraordinary lyrical novel Der Tod des Vergil (1945; The Death of Virgil, 1945), but also a corpus of philosophical, psychological, and political writings that, like the novels, were the product of a lifelong project: the quest to establish a ...
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A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch. Search within full text. Get access. Edited by Graham Bartram, Sarah McGaughey, Galin Tihanov. Publisher: Boydell & Brewer. Online publication date: January 2023. Print publication year:
